Celeste43
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Joined: 2/4/2006 From: NYS Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Steelonme Lets look at this another way... If you are bleeding you are injured. If someone has injured you on purpose they have assaulted you. My son plays football. He frequently comes home, from practice yet, with small bleeding abrasions from someone deliberately running into him. That should qualify as assault, as does a full judo match between two high ranking practitioners. It isn't assault because it is explained ahead of time that these injuries are par for the course when you practice these sports. For people into heavy pain, these minor injuries are par for the course in order to get the pain, or the catharctic release of emotions that accompany it. They know what they're getting into and they take the risk that they may be sitting gingerly for a couple of weeks. Just like my friend who does judo accepted the risk of knee injury, like my son accepts the risk of a broken arm or even just a jammed finger. Assault is unwanted touch. If you want it then it's hard to claim it's assault. Otherwise, football, basketball, wrestling, boxing, all martial arts etc would be illegal More important here is why you are telling everyone what they should and shouldn't enjoy. Would you like it if people told you that you were sick because you like a controlling man who makes all the decisions in your relationship? If they saw him order a meal for you without asking you what you were in the mood for and he ordered something he knew you disliked? Most people would say that was abusive, to force you to eat something that you could barely swallow without gagging. But it isn't abusive if you enjoy the control,even if you don't enjoy liver or sweetbreads or kidneys or baby squid with the ink sac intact. It isn't abusive if you know what you are getting into, you are capable of understanding the ramifications, and you feel it is a worthwhile trade off to get other needs met. That's what's referred to as informed consent. The only people who need to consent are the people in the relationship. I happen to enjoy getting a heavy spanking. I don't enjoy it at the time, the same as I don't enjoy any heavy workout. But I enjoy the way I feel afterwards, and I enjoy knowing he's getting off on it. I know what I'm getting out of it and that's all that matters to us, that we both know what we're doing. You're getting jumped on because you are telling everyone else what they should and shouldn't enjoy, no different than being a Southern Baptist and telling everyone else that they'll go to hell for having sex in anything other than the missionary position. Stop ordering others about, it's rude. You don't need to understand the pleasure others take in it, the same way I don't need to understand why some people like playing golf. All I need to know is that I'm not compatible with a golf fanatic. All you need to do is figure out what kind of person you are compatible with and tell all the others no thanks.
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